Xs and Os: Chiasmus, Apostrophe, and the Lyric Subject in Stevens.

The article offers information on literary work of Wallace Stevens. Topics discussed include figure of Stevens's imagination caught between the materiality of the letter and the world's unreality, conceptual space and temporal immediacy constituting their lyric subjectivity, understandings of the ap...

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Publicado en:Wallace Stevens Journal Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 1 - 21
Autor principal: Ben-Merre, David
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Johns Hopkins University Press Fall2021
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Sumario:The article offers information on literary work of Wallace Stevens. Topics discussed include figure of Stevens's imagination caught between the materiality of the letter and the world's unreality, conceptual space and temporal immediacy constituting their lyric subjectivity, understandings of the apostrophic minimizing the written sign in favor of the so-called magical possibilities of the vocative address and ontological possibilities of apostrophe and chiasmus.